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...require the existence of light-weight protons. Last year Caltech's Carl David Anderson noticed some ion tracks which implied impacts from Theorist Dirac's light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford's platoon of physicists who work in Cambridge's Cavendish's Laboratory, produced 500 pictures of positive particles answering the same description. Dr. Anderson in Pasadena suggested the term "positron," with electron converted to "negatron" to emphasize the distinction...
President Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush of American International Corp. is a potent booster of gold stocks. To celebrate Ontario's gold boom, fortnight ago he and a platoon of Wall Street operators visited the Porcupine fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
Taking along a load of opium, a load of Japanese yen and a load of warm winter clothing, Captain Kawahito set off in command of a platoon, floundered through awful mud to the bandits' lair-all because His Britannic Majesty's Government refuses to be trifled with...
Seagirt. On the parade ground before the Little White House at Seagirt, summer home of New Jersey's Governor, appeared 200 guardsmen masquerading in blue dungarees as riotous strikers. To quell their mock disturbance a platoon of State infantry in gas masks marched against them, hurled tear bombs for practice. A soft breeze blew the white fumes back into the Little White House. Governor & Mrs. Arthur Harry Moore wept...
Into Warwick will troop some 30 doctors from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Manhattan. Under direction of Columbia's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye and with the advice of Professor Frederick Tilney (neurologist) and his colleagues, the platoon of doctors will function as a pre-gangster prophylactic unit...